THEFTS AT WAITARA BEACH
SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT TWO MONTHS FOR ONE ACCUSED. Sentences of two months’ imprisonment with hard: labour and seven day's’ imprisonment were imposed upon John William Burton and Albert George Oliver respectively by Mr. R. W.- Tate, S.M., in the New Plymouth Police Court yesterday. Both had_ been convicted the previous day of the theft of confectionery valued at 6s 4d, the property of the Waitara Surf-bathing and Seaside Improvement Society, and of being idle and disorderly persons. Burton had also been convicted of the theft of a pair of shoes valued at £l, the property of R. D. Grant.
Detective Meiklejohn said that though Burton had denied emphatically' on the previous day that he had had any previous convictions made against him a search had been made and had disclosed that the accused had been convicted at Napier of four previous To Oliver the'magistrate said be had taken into consideration that his past was unknown and that he had not been concerned in the theft of the shoes. Oliver had been too. long at Waitara and should riot have been fnixed up with a man like Burton.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1931, Page 2
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